So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Thaciscokidd]

A lot of us tried to warn them. We really did.

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

[Oizen]

Its almost like housing was always dog shit and Squeenix hasn't done anything about it basically ever.

[Sairys]

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

And the real issue remains availability as it has been since personal housing launched nearly 8 years ago.

[SweetestLily]

Dont let them fool you. The reason they liked the placard system was because they could snipe-relocate into something far far better than what they had.

I forgot you could do this. Which was yet another unfair advantage people who already had plots had.

[Eraden]

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

And this makes the Lottery bad, HOW?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I don't think people realized how much of a gatekeeper Placard Clicking was. You go from the couple of people who would click a placard for the chance to opening up housing to literally every Tom, Dick, and Harry with enough money to buy a lotto ticket.

The want was there, but lotto made it easier.

They don’t know what was the actual number of player (and bots) they’re competing against.

[Sairys]

And this makes the Lottery bad, HOW?

It's better for people casually looking for a house and worse for those who'd be willing to put in the hours and days monitoring wards for a plot to open up.

[Stormpeaks]

People asked for lottery, you get what you sow, enjoy it, and this is only the beginning, once the leftover smalls are gone too, there will be absolutely nothing left to bid on, and the only plot available will have 200+ bids on it. Bots from placard camping are gone, good job, big success, now you can be agaisnt 200 "real" players instead.

[SweetestLily]

No one is really, you're only really entitled to what you can prove. (Interesting article here)
For example, you could look at this article which talks about why people complaining may often not actually be representative of the majority of players and are all different subgroups which only really turn up in specific situations.

Then if the people who preferred placard spamming to the current housing system remained hidden all these years while others in favor of lottery spoke out like you claim, then it sounds like they had more than enough time to communicate this and failed to do so.

[SweetestLily]

People asked for lottery, you get what you sow, enjoy it, and this is only the beginning, once the leftover smalls are gone too, there will be absolutely nothing left to bid on, and the only plot available will have 200+ bids on it. Bots from placard camping are gone, good job, big success, now you can be agaisnt 200 "real" players instead.

Exactly. You can't ask for something then cause a storm when you get it.